A very active member of the Ecole Biblique et ArchEologique
Francaise de JErusalem that has done so much to introduce
historical criticism into the believer's reading of the Scriptures,
Etienne Nodet proposes here a beautiful history book. Certainly, in
putting forward to the general public an accessible synthesis of
scholarly and dense works carried out successfully in these recent
years, he spares the reader the ponderousness of a critical
apparatus and consigns to Appendix I the citation of his principal
ancient sources. He invites the reader to a fascinating effort of
the intelligence and of the heart that constitutes the profession
of a historian: documentation, appraisal of documents, examining
witnesses, comparisons, inductions and deductions; even textual
criticism is sometimes called upon: for example, he is one of those
who postulates the existence of a "Western Text" of the New
Testament, and draws interesting hypotheses from its comparison
with the standard text of the critical editions. In a second
appendix, not found in the original French work, he presents a new
translation of Josephus' War of the Jews" for hints of authentic
non-Christian evidence about Jesus and John the Baptist.
Beginning with the Gospel accounts of the infancy of Jesus, the
author opens up for us the main features of the life of Jesus in a
reading that oscillates between the questioning of the historical
reference and the penetrating understanding of their verbal
expression. Finally, there is the very suggestive sketch of the
figure of James, "the brother of the Lord" and the head of the
early Jerusalem church.
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